Three Colorado companies are among the for-profit plaintiffs suing over the federal contraception mandate limited by the Supreme Court ruling on religious freedom Monday.

“The decision should mean they will all prevail in their cases,” said Greg Baylor with the Alliance Defending Freedom, which represents the three Colorado plaintiffs. “Whether the government will concede all its cases are lost, or whether it will argue other cases have distinguishing features, I don’t know. But we don’t think (it) can win.”

The 5-4 ruling by the court is the first to recognize the religious rights of corporations — at least those closely owned by religious families.

Colorado’s and other cases likely won’t resolve overnight, Baylor said, but he didn’t think it would take too many months.

• Cherry Creek Mortgage, a residential mortgage banking company based in Greenwood Village that has 760 employees and offices in 22 states. Former U.S. Sen. Bill Armstrong, a co-owner who started the company and has been a director since 1992, also has been the president of Colorado Christian University since 2006.

The university is one of four Colorado nonprofit organizations suing over the contraception mandate under the Affordable Care Act. However, the court’s decision doesn’t apply to nonprofits, which have been provided “an accommodation” by the Obama administration that calls for a third party to pay for the coverage — which many are still objecting to in court.

Briscoe’s complaint says abortion-inducing drugs covered by the contraception mandate result in the wrongful taking of human life.

None of the companies could be reached for comment Monday.

Plaintiffs have argued the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act protects employers opposed to the Health and Human Services contraception mandate “from being forced, under threat of ruinous government fines, to fund products and services that violate their sincerely held religious beliefs.”

“It’s always been our view that for-profit corporations have religious freedoms,” Baylor said. “It’s just that rarely have you had a federal mandate that so widely violates so many’s religious beliefs.”

On Monday, when the first cross-country eclipse in 99 years swoops across America, believers of all faiths will have their first chance in decades to put their particular religion’s eclipse traditions into practice.

A White House advisory council on infrastructure Thursday became the latest casualty of the pique of business leaders over President Donald Trump’s response to the hate-fueled violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.

The first solar eclipse to cross the continental United States in nearly a century comes at an especially inopportune time for many employers. From 10:15 a.m. Pacific until just before 3 p.m. Eastern time — some of the busiest hours of the workweek — the moon’s shadow will hit land in Newport, Ore. and leave the continent near Charleston, S.C.